Comments on: Fever, A Self-Hosted Feed Reader, Heats Up Your RSS Subscriptions

By: Google Reader Trends Reveals Your Reading Habits | Social Media Explorer

Google Reader Trends Reveals Your Reading Habits | Social Media Explorer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:33 +0000

[...] Fever, A Self-Hosted Feed Reader, Heats Up Your RSS Subscriptions (techcrunch.com) [...]

By: I’ve Got A Fever (and The Only Cure is Feeds) « m lapida

I’ve Got A Fever (and The Only Cure is Feeds) « m lapida — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:10:03 +0000

[...] news sites, TechCrunch. I had been looking for a GReader replacement for some time, and when the article was written about fever I knew I had to check it [...]

By: mlapida

mlapida — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:21:28 +0000

I just bought the license, and had an issue that was my hosts problem, not his. I emailed Shaun (yea we’re on a first name basis) and he got back to me within 24 hours.

You might want to try emailing him again.

I do like fever a lot, price aside. I’m writing my own little review right now, since finding a review before I made the plunge was pretty difficult.

By: Jay Tyler

Jay Tyler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:14:17 +0000

Biggest problem is that you need to have domain *name* for Fever to run on – it’s not enough to run it on a computer and access via its IP address. As far as I can tell this is an anti-piracy tactic. Surely there must be better alternatives than this. Further to this – two emails to the author have gone unread in over 2 week. I’ll certainly be keeping my $30 and not dealing with this developer. Ever.

By: Fever – originali koncepcija, prastas atlikimas

Fever – originali koncepcija, prastas atlikimas — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:53:23 +0000

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By: Links and Thoughts for Week of June 22 | Experience Planner

Links and Thoughts for Week of June 22 | Experience Planner — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:52:42 +0000

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By: Ernie Oporto

Ernie Oporto — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:07:36 +0000

I took the Fever dive, even though I’m the author of my own feed reader, and found it to really cut down on the number of unread articles I dealt with while still getting me the stuff I think is important. The amount of repetition in feeds can be killer and Fever really solves that well.

By: william

william — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:20:10 +0000

We have also created a feed reader that has many of great features and even allows for pushing feed content to twitter

By: » Lots of smart people thinking the same way

» Lots of smart people thinking the same way — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:22:06 +0000

[...] TechCrunch writes this morning about Fever, a personalized RSS reader from Shaun Inman. I’ve been a fan of Mr. Inman’s for a long time, having bought installations of Mint, his stat-tracking program, for several of my sites. From TechCrunch: Besides offering a full-featured feed reader, the application attempts to create a personalized Techmeme by scanning a user’s feed list for popular (or hot) links. Fever then groups these links into stories and assigns each a “temperature.” This allows a user to quickly keep a pulse on what’s going on in his or her “slice of the web.” [...]

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:03:36 +0000

Google offers quite comprehensive documentation for most of their products. Check out the Google Reader support documents.

By: Monik

Monik — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:05:22 +0000

googlereader is a program i don´t understand it… can someone help me?

By: Fever « Wir sprechen Online.

Fever « Wir sprechen Online. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:41:12 +0000

[...] Besides offering a full-featured feed reader, Fever attempts to create a personalized Techmeme; http://tr.im/pGPw [...]

By: Fever, termometrul feed-reader | Stiri.IT

Fever, termometrul feed-reader | Stiri.IT — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:00:24 +0000

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By: Dan Romero

Dan Romero — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:32:44 +0000

“If you’re the type of person that subscribes to hundreds of feeds and yet wants to be able to tell at a glance what’s worth looking at when you’ve only got a minute or two, then Fever is definitely for you. If you subscribe to less than 100 blogs, then stick with Google Reader.”

Well-said Cory.

By: Aviv

Aviv — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:08:05 +0000

And it manages your backups as well? Sets up your own cron-jobs?

That’s not what I heard.

By: Cory O'Brien

Cory O'Brien — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:28:38 +0000

I have two licenses for Inman’s Mint, so I didn’t hesitate for a second to pick up a copy of Fever as well, and I must say, I haven’t been disappointed. He’s not kidding when he says that he handles customer support personally, since I emailed him with a problem (the blacklist functionality was confusing at first) and he emailed back within 24 hours to let me know that it would be fixed in the next version, which went live less than 24 hours after that.

If you’re the type of person that subscribes to hundreds of feeds and yet wants to be able to tell at a glance what’s worth looking at when you’ve only got a minute or two, then Fever is definitely for you. If you subscribe to less than 100 blogs, then stick with Google Reader.

By: krous

krous — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:13:35 +0000

$30 + hosting + maintenance?? No thanks, you can keep it inclusive alright.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:12:48 +0000

There is an iPhone optimized version. Check out your Fever on the iPhone. It’s quite slick.

By: Dan Romero

Dan Romero — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:31:55 +0000

It did everything for me automatically.

By: Ravikant

Ravikant — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:30:02 +0000

This sounds awesome. I am tired of google reader.

By: Aviv

Aviv — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:08:11 +0000

Setup your own cron-jobs? Come on people… Even at $30 a pop, I can’t imagine a lot of people are into getting that deep with system configs.

Cron-jobs are not that user-friendly, and especially with new-ish cloud hosting, cron-jobs are kind of an after-thought.

Although, this has some potential…

1. Make it free (charge for premium features)
2. Serve it themselves – wouldn’t take more than $5k/month
3. Mobile version

Another thought…. By hosting and setting it up yourself, does that user then need to setup their own backups and information storage? And does the user ever need to get into the database in order to configure the cron-jobs? Because not all hosting providers have fun interfaces to configure things with.

I am shocked by what is expected of potential customers of this product.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:05:33 +0000

the link to download it on the feedly homepage is broken. i won’t use software from a company who can’t even get a simple download link right

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:46:42 +0000

No Demo = Dealbreaker

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:45:14 +0000

Love the idea, but for $30 I’m out.

I use Vienna for free on a Mac, but would love something that avoided 20000 unreads. Maybe for $10 if I could demo it first, but $30 is more than 90% of people would pay, even power readers….

By: John O'Day

John O'Day — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:24:00 +0000

everyone should take a look at Feedly. it doesn't get nearly enough attention considering how large and well implemented its feature set is.